PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | skin disease |
| Phenotype | C0014733|erysipelas |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21713077 | Familial mediterranean fever (fmf) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease which is characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and peritonitis, pleuritis, arthritis, or erysipelas-like skin disease.1 the gene associated with fmf (mefv) was isolated in 1997 by two independent groups.2,3 it encodes a 781 amino acid protein named pyrinmarenostrin, which suppresses inflammation via interaction with peptides and cytokines involved in this process. |
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